This week in The Artist’s Way, we are looking at money, how we spend it and what we think of it, and she is challenging us to seek being frivolous.
As I wrote about Money in the morning pages, it came to me that in my childhood, money was definitely an issue or the lack thereof, but we blamed the money, when in fact the culprit was my parent’s beliefs.
We may have danced around the fact that there were too many children, but we never forced the issue as to why so many children when you can’t afford them? Money took the blame, when in fact they lost control of themselves within the churches rules.
When you have no control, you tend to blame things or people who make your life miserable, when in fact if you pulled yourself back into control, money and things would lose their power.
They are only powerful when you are not.
As I also wrote, it came to me, that there was no space to be frivolous, for there was barely money for the basics, and it was drilled into me, that if you were frivolous, your basic needs would go unmet. And it feels like life and death, for it was very close. Being the second oldest, I lived through the harshest years of way too many children and not enough cash flow…and within me now, being selfishly frivolous means someone will go hungry.
The flow of power is not up to the money, but it lies wholly in our beliefs. We put our experiences into money, money doesn’t have an agenda, it just is.
